Barack Obama Wins in Videogame Landslide

[Silva]

Barack's got his groove on. Surprise, surprise. That charisma is reaching into unexpected alleyways.

Please, I will give you anything to neveruse those words in that sequence ever ever ever(cubed) again.

Thank you in advance for your entire gaming collection. Please forward it to *censored address location*.

Barack's got his groove on. Surprise, surprise. That charisma is reaching into unexpected alleyways.

Really? People would want to play with Queen Elizabeth in the UK? It is clear that an American wrote this, because I simply cannot imagine that being the case.

You Brits should quit it with the frothing at the mouth anti-Americanism.

"You Brits"? I'm an Australian. Nice work.

Geez, you're such arrogant snobs, of course you would want to play video games with you're precious Queen. America pretty much owns the world, blah, blah, blah, bad teeth; blah, blah, blah, tea; blah, blah, blah, anti-American British we kicked you're ass; blah, blah, blah.

Since she is technically our head of state, giving me more reason to understand this, I'll let that little piece of ignorance slide. The Queen is not as popular as you think she is.

STOP BEING SO ANTI-AMERICAN, I KNOW CHINA OWNS US NOW. YES, SAYING ANYTHING I DON'T LIKE IS ANTI-AMERICAN! AHHHHHH!
(Just heading off the replies of the least intelligent before they can start, I didn't mean any of that)
And it is very possible (and likely) that no one will have even intended to reply like that, but if they wanted too, I no longer have to worry about replying to them in turn.

Hahaha. It wasn't an anti-American sentiment anyway. I was just making a joke. Because, it's a fairly American thing to consider the Queen a stupendously popular figure. The Australians who want a republic (i.e. myself) might respect her, but not to the point of pure adoration. The UK people who find her politically irrelevant, or the minority who want a system that doesn't involve monarchs, probably aren't that impressed, either. The Europeans know enough about the British to understand this. So that rules out most of the English-speaking population of the world.

More to the point, I singled out America because I've only spotted three nationalities for writers on The Escapist so far, those being American, British and Australian. The British and Australian writers simply wouldn't think in that way (Australians wouldn't because we're originally a British colony, and the Queen has some fairly irrelevant authority here today). Why would you game with an elderly person anyway? Barack may be 40, but that's different from 80. He's not that far away from the gaming generation - he probably plays Wii with his kids.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Can I play video games with Robin Williams and Yahtzee???

 

[undyingdh777]

In a survey of kids ages 8-17, their opinions don't matter anyway since they can't think for themselves.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

I think if I had the oppurtunity to sit down with Barrack Obama, the last thing I would be doing is gaming. Okay, well maybe not the last thing (there are plenty of worse things to do I can think of), but it certainly wouldn't be a first choice.

 

[_zuul]

i'm sorry B, i call coach.

you can play ellis.

I call Lious :<

if you're going to be that way, then there is no problem.
i call bill

 

[Vierran]

I would like to play with Lance Henriksen especially in a game he voices just to see what he says.

 

[gamefreakbsp]

If it is ANY public figure, I can think of a whole slew of people that i would rather play video games with. Besides, he is the president. He is probably far to busy to game.

 

[Dommyboy]

I would play Red Alert 3 with Obama and he can help me invade America.

 

[matrix3509]

Since when did 8-17 year olds know a goddamn thing about who Barack Obama really is other than what they have been told on the TV (re:he's the messiah)? I wanted to play videogames with my friends back when I was young, turns out most of my friends back then were piles of shit.

 

[Grand_Arcana]

Well, that's odd. Obama never struck me as a gamer (though he is a massive nerd.) I want to play video games with William Shakespeare : )

 

[thiosk]

Fantastic News!

And George Bush was the president we all collectively most wanted to have a beer with.

We sure know how to pick 'em.

 

[Mythbhavd]

Hopefully, he'd be a better gamer than he is a president.

 

[hebdomad]

Heck I'd pay money to see any world leader play video games for a good length of time.
But to play along side?

Oh the opportunists for political smack talk!

Any leader involved in a war playing an FPS or RTS > "Hows the war going now?!?!"

A Racing game with Obama > "Bailing out GM wont make your car go any faster you know"

Or even checkers with the queen > "King ME! ... your majesty"

 

[Dr.Doctor]

I can just imagine playing MW2 with him.

Me: Damn, I'm getting my ass kicked, I need to take off this thermal.

Obama: That's change we can believe in.

 

[teutonicman]

Ugh not a lot of interesting choices listed. If I had a choice to game with a celebrity I would choose....... natalie portman.. yeah.

 

[Thaius]

Hmm, I would have expected the first choice to be more of a celebrity than a public figure.

Wait...

 

[Tears of Blood]

I would like to play games with Peter Molyneux. Just 'cause he's my idol.

And, I wouldn't want to play games with ANY of the people mentioned here, nor do I think any REAL gamers would either. This is just silly, I would have liked to see how this survey was carried out.

 

[rabidmidget]

what was the average age of this survey?

 

[quantum mechanic]

I would like to play videogames with Barack Obama, even though he'd probably beat me.

Other choices: the cast of the most recent Lord of the Rings movies (particularly Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, after watching the "Hobbits on Gaming" feature of the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King game), or Patrick Stewart.

 

[Vern]

What the hell? I would much rather play a game as ex-KGB agent, ex-president, current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. I can't imagine a more picture perfect Bond Villain, he could cut your throat with his shoelace, but he'd rather inject your sushi with polonium 210. If that fails he could always shoot you with a tranquilizer dart, make your skin into a rug, and give a poor girl a Cinderella dress. All before his morning vodka. I'm pretty sure he uses a bayonet to pick his teeth, and uses an AK barrel to clean his ears. A game with him would be like Hitman, except when shit gets bad, he rips off his shirt and rides away on horseback.